Is porn immoral? That doesn’t matter: It’s a public health crisis.

By Gail Dines April 8 
Gail Dines is a professor of sociology at Wheelock College in Boston and author of “Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked our Sexuality

Last month, the Republican-led Utah House of Representatives became the first legislative body in the United States topass a resolutiondeclaring pornography “a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms.” The liberal backlash criticized the measure as an antiquated bit of conservative moralizing, with the Daily Beast calling it “hypocritical” and “short-sighted.” “The science just isn’t there,” wrote Rewire, an online journaldedicated to dispelling“falsehoods and misinformation.

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